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What it Takes to Move a Mountain: The Regimental Air Assault - Marines with 1st Marine Division load onto an MV-22B Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), for a regimental air assault during exercise Steel Knight aboard Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 10, 2019. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that integrates 3rd MAW’s combat power and capabilities with those of 1st Marine Division. This exercise provides the Marines and sailors of 3rd MAW with realistic and relevant training, which enhances their skills, tactics and combat readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Warrant Officer Justin M. Pack)

What it Takes to Move a Mountain: The Regimental Air Assault

In a magnificent display of combat power, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing demonstrated its ability to lift a regiment of Marines and their equipment over long distances in a very short period of time in Southern California, Dec. 10, 2019. Muddy and exhausted with dark clouds looming, the Marines trekked across a rain-soaked field, their footprints embedding into the mud with every weighted step. They marched toward the distant sound of rotor blades. U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallions and MV-22B Ospreys with 3rd MAW waited on the horizon, ready to fulfill their role and extract the warriors following a training event that began with inserting Marines from 1st Marine Division. Overhead, two UH-1Y Venoms secured an unseen 3-dimensional perimeter, ready to provide support if needed. This is what a regimental air assault looks like.

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11th MEU Marines - 190729-M-MI961-1026 CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (July 29, 2019) Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fires an AT-4 on a range during live-fire training. The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th MEU are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jared Sabins/Released)

Lethal and Ready to Respond

Marines and Sailors from the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit completed a two-week training exercise aboard multiple U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Aug. 9.The exercise enabled the 11th MEU to train together as a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for the first time since completing similar sustainment training in

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Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces Reserve, speaks to the Reserve Marines attending Integrated Training Exercise 4-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, June 19, 2016. Over the two-week period the Marines trained in combined-arms exercises to hone their skills as a Marine Air Ground Task Force, in order to prepare for worldwide deployment and augment the active component. - Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces Reserve, speaks to the Reserve Marines attending Integrated Training Exercise 4-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, June 19, 2016. Over the two-week period the Marines trained in combined-arms exercises to hone their skills as a Marine Air Ground Task Force, in order to prepare for worldwide deployment and augment the active component.

Combining elements; Reserve Marines complete first evolution of ITX 4-16

As the heat rose steadily over the course of two-weeks in the vast desert of southern California, so did the proficiency of the Reserve Marines completing their annual training at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California. The Marines attended multiple training scenarios where they sent bullets blazing down range as they

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Brilliance in basics: 1st Marine Division launches Steel Knight

Marines with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division embarkedaboard the USS Somerset and executed a complex amphibious assault on the shoresof Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 4, 2015. ExerciseSteel Knight is a division-wide training evolution, which provides realistic andintense training to ensure the division is

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Sergeant Marlon Madison, a military police working dog trainer with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command 15.2 (SP-MAGTF-CR-CC), and his military working dog, Fedor, conduct directional training aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 11, 2015. The training was part of SP-MAGTF-CR-CC’s Certification Exercise held in several locations across southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho Feb. 5-14, 2015. Certification exercises are conducted regularly throughout the Corps, testing unit performance across a broad spectrum of mission sets and core mission essential tasks. - Sergeant Marlon Madison, a military police working dog trainer with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command 15.2 (SP-MAGTF-CR-CC), and his military working dog, Fedor, conduct directional training aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 11, 2015. The training was part of SP-MAGTF-CR-CC’s Certification Exercise held in several locations across southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho Feb. 5-14, 2015. Certification exercises are conducted regularly throughout the Corps, testing unit performance across a broad spectrum of mission sets and core mission essential tasks.